A/N: This chapter is from the POV of Penelope.
The Potters and the Goblet of Fire
By Ron Potter
Chapter 11: The Potters Reveal the Secret
Every night and breaks the Ravenclaws through a party for me. Lisa Turpin did a spell that made a blue sparks form of an eagle fly around the common room. Flitwick chaperoned the whole thing but charmed the whole place in celebration for Ravenclaw. I remember we haven't had a party like this since I was a first year and Roger Davies put an exploding salamander on Montague's Shooting Star. I suppose we haven't won anything since the Quidditch cup in 86. I couldn't escape the Ravenclaw partygoers. Cho could barely sneak out to meet Cedric. Orla and Stewart would not stop bragging to the other first and second years and I treat them to candy and extra help with homework and such.
Later one night the Ravenclaw parties stopped in tiredness and Snape. Stewart, Orla, Padma, Cho, and I were working on homework. Stewart stopped and pointed out the dark mark over the Quidditch Field and Forbidden Forest. Cho ran out of the common room remembering her date with Cedric in the library.
"Who would put up that disgusting mark?" Orla asked.
"There must be death eaters here," I replied finishing off my transfiguration essay. "Oh that reminds me Padma…how's your relationship with Draco Malfoy?"
Padma blushed to a deep scarlet red. "How'd you find out?"
"It's a little odd why a Slytherin doesn't pick on a Ravenclaw anymore," I replied putting my books away in my bag. "Plus, I saw you leave Ron Weasley's table at the Yule Ball and go off with Draco Malfoy. Pansy was crying her eyes out for a week."
Padma deep scarlet blush turned even deeper blood color. "Shouldn't you…a prefect…be investigating that dark mark?"
I had completely forgotten dropping all my books letting an inkbottle spill onto the nice baby blue chairs and dashing out of the common room to the forbidden forest, which was closest. All the other prefects were waving beams of light out of the forbidden forest where the faint outline of a small cabin can be seen at the edge of the forest. "Accio Book Bag!" I shouted as my book bag with my wand and supplies floating to my side as I pulled it around. I ran as fast as I could into the forbidden forest knocking over a centaur. I stole a unicorn riding him quickly through the forest toward the cabin where the beams of light came from. I saw Viktor and Harry enter the cabin too where I can make out the outline of four others and a hippogriff. Behind me were Hermione Granger, Parvati Patil, and Lavender Brown running after Harry. I beat them to the cabin bringing the unicorn right in as the door locked behind me. Hermione, Parvati, and Lavender ran into the locked door not being able to get in.
"Hermione!" Viktor shouted as a werewolf came running at the three trespassers. The wolf missed Hermione and Parvati but bit Lavender on the leg. Lavender remained alive but was slowly turning into a werewolf as Remus pulled her in. Hermione and Parvati ran back to the castle.
"You guys better tell them," Sirius Black said to James and Lily.
James stepped forward toward Viktor, Harry, and me. "Viktor…Penelope…I'm your birth father. Viktor…the Krum's are my cousins who live in Bulgaria who promised to take care of you if Voldemort came. Penelope…your Clearwater mother is Lily's sister…a muggle. Lily had you Viktor while we were in our seventh year but we had to erase your current memory of before with us. Same thing goes for you Penelope."
"How come they aren't in my album?" Harry shouted. "Viktor or Penelope isn't in there!"
"Yes they are Harry," Remus said. "I put a privacy spell on that album so only I, Viktor, and Penelope can see those pictures and of course we gave the rest to the Clearwater's and Krum's."
Three months went by of staying in this horrible cabin. I can't wait to see my friends again. The adults here have taught us yet no one can seem to get out. Lavender had her baby on April first or otherwise at Hogwarts known as Weasley Fools Day. Since she was bitten by that werewolf, the baby was effected too so she named the baby Romulus. It was actually George Weasley that's the father, which is clearly visible through his red hair. Remus kept Lavender, Romulus Brown Weasley, and himself to one side of the cabin when they transform. Then during June when all the other true champions were being told the third task…they were finally let out.
"Mr. Potter…I mean dad…whose cabin was that?" I asked James as we left the forest.
Sirius, James, and Remus smiled at each other. Then James said, "That was the cabin where our mischief plans started. It leads to the Shrieking Shack…but we planned there. It's also the place where Lily and I had you Viktor. We called that place the dark cabin until you were born."
"Then we called it the baby nursery!" Sirius laughed. Remus, James, Sirius, and Lily smiled at Viktor as he trotted away towards the Quidditch field. Then Harry and I trotted down to the field hoping we're not too late.
When we got to the field Bagman had just finished explaining everything. High hedges about 10 feet tall covered a maze along the field. Bagman then told us there were spells and creatures put into the maze that we had to pass to get to the center. After he explained every rule in detail we were finally able to go off. All the champions and a few other wandering students were pulled off into a clearing in the forbidden forest.
"You are all here to settle the differences between of the Durmstrang Civil War!" Allen Blacksberry shouted. "Now everyone who supports me go over by that big round tree." All the slytherins of the group went by the big round tree. "Everyone supporting famous Viktor Krum go by that thin spot of clear trees." Everyone else (ravenclaws and Gryffindors) went over to a spot where brand new thin trees were. "First Millicent Bulstrode will duel Hermione Granger!"
"Tantallegra!" Millicent shouted as Hermione shouted "Incendio!" Hermione started doing a weird tap dance as Millicent's robes caught fire. Then Hermione shouted "Mobilar Corpus!" as Millicent was lifted up off the ground and being slammed into the nearest tree aided her burned robes and hand.
"Next are Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter!" Allen shouted.
"Incendio!" Draco shouted as Harry's robes caught fire. Then Harry shouted "Expelliarmus!" which rebounded the fire spell back at Draco. Both of them lay on the ground nursing their bloody hands unable to duel more.
"Next are Montague and Diggory!" Allen shouted. Then Cedric immediately shouted "Petrificus Totalus!" and everyone was completely frozen. "Everyone should not be dueling here! Dumbledore and Karkaroff will be informed at once! I assure you slytherins that your Professor Snape can't get you out of this!" Just then a swarm of prefects (of Hufflepuff) ran into the clearing seizing everyone and taking them back. First the Ravenclaw prefects were undone and same for Gryffindor together we dragged everyone back.
"Mr. Crouch is dead!" a voice shouted among the crowd. I turned around and saw it was Lisa Turpin. "I saw him! Some guy I couldn't see his face raised his wand…shouted the killing curse…and then Mr. Crouch fell to the floor being transfigured to a big nail!"
Over the next few days the teachers became as scared as ever. Lisa Turpin swore she heard the staff talking about canceling the tournament in the event that a murderer is on campus. Professor Sinistra seems just as war-like as ever…all we do is study war with the stars…the only things we did the whole year was Mars, Jupiter, and Venus. The worst part of all this is the fact that Percy and I can't get together when we're 10 feet away! Sometimes Cho points out he want to break up with me…but I highly doubt that since we are always together in Hogsmeade with a crowd of Daily Prophet reporters. Cho can't stop talking about Cedric and wanting to protect him at all cost. After class, she badgered my first year, Orla to go with her to sneak into Hufflepuff Tower just to see if they can. Murder stories flew around like wild fire for the next two weeks. I can barely study with all the commotion about someone coming to Ravenclaw Tower to murder someone.
Three days before the third and final task starts Flitwick called me down to his office on the third floor after lunch. So I did.
"Tea Miss Clearwater?" Professor Flitwick asked in his squeaky voice taking out his pink cups of tea with little purple wands.
"Alright," I said taking his small pink with purple wands teacup. His teacups were only like and inch and a half in diameter. "So what do you want to talk to me about?"
Professor Flitwick put down his teacup shakily on his desk him getting much older. "About Two years ago in your fifth year we had this career talk. Dumbledore is allowing me to do that with my seventh year Ravenclaws again to confirm their careers." Professor Flitwick opened his draw taking out a yellow file folder with my name on it and putting on his glasses. "Ah let's see here…you wanted to be a mediwitch. Do you still want to be a mediwitch?"
"Of course…although I would like to open up my own Wizarding hospital," I replied taking a sip of my already empty cup. "I already know all the ministry requirements to be a qualified private mediwitch."
"You do realize that there will be a special section on your potion N.E.W.T. about those requirements right?" Flitwick asked filling his teacup back up again.
"I've studied them all throughout the summer, plus Percy Weasley sent me some useful tips to get on Fudge's good side," I replied walking away back to the common room.
